Re: [Gimp-user] freehand selection lost since image was already selected

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On 08/15/2013 01:07 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:
> Sorry, forgot to mention, I typically have the "add to selection" button
> on. It's a lot more pleasant to use when doing large freehand selections
> than having to hold the shift button, and avoids that other dangerous
> situation where your shift-clicking finger starts fatiguing and you let
> go for a click and the dots start looking weird and you hit return to
> just add what you've got and the old selection is all gone.
When I do complicated selections by adding individual selections, I save 
each of them in a channel, and then combine the channels in the end. 
This lets me rework one of the selections later (with the same tool that 
created it) if needed.